Poll: Israel Most Hated Country In The World

So we now have some new global polling on how residents of the world feel about various countries.Let's put this up on the screen.You will not be surprised, I think, viewers of this show, to learn that the most hated country in the entire world, beating out North Korea, actually by a pretty hefty margin here, is China.the nation state of Israel, although isn't even a nation state when it doesn't really seem to have borders and continually expands and attacks whoever they want, whenever they want.It's a question for another day.In any case, they are the most hated, hated national entity in the world.

North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran.And then we are just narrowly by one point there, liked better than Iran.Our standing has apparently plummeted quite significantly in the Democracy Perception Index.And, you know, I don't know all methodology saga of this polling, but it does not surprise me whatsoever that Israel is not exactly held in high regard.When you look at the way that they act like cry bullies in the world, when you look at the way that they attack all of their neighbors routinely, when you consider the fact that not just us, but the entire globe has watched the barbarism in their timelines of Israel committing a genocide and bragging about it and celebrating it.So, you know, the country that we hold out as our great ally and the most moral army in the world and the only democracy in the Middle East, blah, blah, blah.

Turns out they have the lowest global perception of literally any place on the planet.

Yeah.You know, it's actually interesting when you pair this with how Americans perceive other countries in the world.So I forgot to add this in, but I will send it along so we can put it in post.When you ask Americans how the influence of other countries is growing, and this fits very much with the theme of our show now, number one is China.And this was a poll just taken a few days ago.And number two is Israel, actually.

So who is getting stronger?The percent of American adults who say each country is getting stronger.China, 62%.Israel, 45%.Russia, 34%.U .

S., 34%.So the U .S.is actually number four.So it's not really just the globe.

I think it's that other countries are intuiting who has the upper hand in geopolitics.And what's actually fascinating to me is that Americans themselves are actually seeing through their own propaganda of their own media.Now, in many countries, India for example, they have a vibrant, thriving press.They will talk all day long about the declining influence of the United States, about how India stands alone, about how, you know, they can assess both with Israel, with Russia, and with the U .S.They can look at things, you know, pretty easily.

But when you look at other Asian countries, especially the more allied countries, they're pretty good, often, about not showing in their media, let's say something that's so detrimental to the United States, with Israel and all that, they didn't ever particularly care.But we've already paired this now with not only a lot of the outrage over how they conduct themselves in Gaza, but whenever this Iran war happened, they also were like, wow, now their belligerence is directly affecting us.And I think when you pair those two things together with the United States with Israel, I mean even with the US Let's say what our operation in Venezuela.One of the reasons I so opposed it was that Obviously, you know, between this and the Iran war, North Korea is never ever giving up their nuclear weapons.Now, they probably weren't ever before that, but when you fly into another nation and capture their head of state because he doesn't have a nuke, and then you also launch a preemptive war to prevent another country from getting a nuke, and you can't even do that, you've erased, you know, US deterrence to any country which you're trying to do diplomacy with, probably for like the next 20 years.Well, you also, I mean, just imagine

outrage in any neutral or even quasi -allied country.They're like, wait, they did that to them.They could do this to us.And so that level of hatred, I mean, it's probably akin to the Iraq war.I remember I traveled a lot during the Iraq war.I was a teenager, I was living abroad too.

I mean, I don't particularly care all that much what like a Belgian thinks of the United States, to say it was not a lot, you know, it was not very, very well -received, the Iraq war.And it wasn't just them, it was like everybody, like wherever you went, people were really mad.And when you add Israel in on top of this, and then the alliance, you know, bipartisan alliance really between Biden and between Trump over these last few years, people really, really have a negative view.I also think in Europe, it's not just Israel, it's also probably Ukraine, if I had to guess.Obviously, they're a lot more attached to the war in Ukraine than a lot of Americans are.And for them, they had these very antiquated, idealized view of NATO, but for them, that's also a wake -up call.

The fact is is that Russia is going to have at least a portion of Ukraine.So I think you just put all these things together, from Asia to Europe and across the world, the way they're feeling about Israel, the way they're feeling about the United States, and the assessment of who's getting stronger and having the upper hand, it all points in a very, very bad direction for American primacy, if that's something you ever cared about.

And I certainly did.

Yeah, go ahead.

I was just going to say, it's also, I mean, just think of our self -conception as always like the good guys in the world, you know, and then you look at this and you're like, you're ranked the same as Iran.Congratulations.And, um, Iran supposedly, you know, in our conception, the, on the axis of evil, et cetera, et cetera.And I suspect that most of this polling was done before the Iran war.I'm going to make a prediction here that the view of Iran in the world is going to surge because they've come off looking much more like the reasonable party in this war.I mean, they were the ones who were attacking

They were not the aggressive offender in this regard.And they've been very effective with their propaganda campaign, you know, the Lego videos and the new minion videos and all these things that are coming out that are appealing to an American audience or appealing to a global audience.So, you know, that I think that alone given our sense of American exceptionalism, and that we're the shining beacon on the hill and all this sort of thing, to see us ranking there with Iran, Afghanistan, North Korea, and then our great ally Israel is should be pretty stunning wake up call, I think, for a lot of Americans about how we are viewed at this point and justifiably not be out of envy or blah, blah, blah, but because of the way that we have conducted ourselves in the world, certainly in this Trump administration.But as you point to the Iraq war going back further, I want to let me let's jump ahead here for a moment to C5, because this ties directly into like Israel's view in the world and the way they've tried to manipulate the perception of Israel on the global stage.So there's this contest called Eurovision where like countries compete with a pop star and they have a song.I've never actually watched it.

I've only seen some clips online.This is more of a European thing.

I have seen the movie Eurovision with Will Ferrell.That's as close as I get to Eurovision.

Okay, there you go.Is it worth seeing?It's a funny movie actually.

It's actually a funny movie.Okay.

All right.So anyway, you can check that out for a little bit of a tutorial on what exactly Eurovision is.In any case, Israel found this to be really important.As they were conducting this genocide, they're like, if we win the Eurovision contest, then people will stop thinking that everyone in the world hates us.So New York Times did this somewhat belated, but kind of significant investigation into whether or not Israel manipulated the voting so that their star that they had representing their country would come out on top.That person actually ended up getting second place.

but they went and they looked and they're like, you know, in these countries like Spain.where people really, really hate Israel and are very pro -Palestine, somehow the Israeli artist won overwhelmingly in Spain.There were other countries that they looked at that would be small countries where only a few hundred votes would be required to like sway the vote in one direction or the other, where lo and behold, they voted overwhelmingly for Israel.It is known that Israel spent, you know, had a large, significant budget to promote Israel.their Eurovision contender and to get people to vote.Netanyahu himself posted a graphic that was like, vote 20 times for our superstar.

So in any case.The concerns that this contest was not above board, these deep suspicions that Israel had in fact manipulated the vote outcome seem to have been completely vindicated here.And it's just kind of a wild thing, a wild insight into the way that they think.They're like, well, if we are hated, rather than changing our behavior so that maybe we're not seen as complete barbaric monsters, instead, we're just going to rig the vote totals, because that's totally going to work.And that's totally going to change people's about who we are and what we're up to and how they feel about us.

Yeah, it really...It's amusing, but it's revealing.Right.It's one of those things where in, by the way, at the time, like you said there, everybody kind of knew something was going on.But the investigation about all of these diplomats, I mean, the level of seriousness which they took this is pretty crazy.Like imagine U .

S.diplomats at the secretary of state level going around trying to rig a vote for like a game show abroad.It's unthinkable, honestly.

Well, and it's it's ripping Eurovision apart because there's a big push to get Israel banned.there was supposed to be a vote on it.Then the vote was polled.So you have a lot of countries that are unilaterallyout.And I think you have to like pay money to participate and that's part of their business model.

So it's actually threatens the entire Eurovision enterprise because of Israel and their participation and their rigging of the results.

How did they get into Eurovision in the first place?It doesn't make a lot of sense.Like, I'm just like, you know, look, no offense to them, but it's like, you're clearly not in Europe.So what exactly is going on here?Apparently they competed in Europe just since 1973.OK, I didn't even know that.

Again, I'm not so familiar with the show, but are other non -European nations in Eurovision?Is this a common thing?

And if so, what's the point?I don't know the answer to that question, actually.

What's the point of calling it Eurovision?Is Turkey in Eurovision?Because that would make actually more sense.But probably not.Just my guess, my guess.I don't know.

I genuinely don't know the answer to this question.OK, while you set up the next one, I'm going to look.OK.All right, we can get to the bottom of this Eurovision situation.So we had some updates for you.You covered with Emily yesterday the Nick Kristof column detailing the allegations of mass rape of Palestinian hostages being held by the Israelis.

And obviously, this is a topic we've covered in the past based on reporting from the U .N., reporting from B'Tselem, reporting, you know, the video that we all watched of a Palestinian hostage being gang raped, and then those rapists being celebrated as national heroes, while the whistleblower who published the video was penalized and punished.So in any case, Nick Kristof puts out this column, which is extensively documented.He has some, I think, 14 either eyewitnesses or victims themselves.He uses that previous research by human rights organizations, the UN, B'Tselem, which is an Israeli organization to flash out a picture that

paints very compellingly, once again, that this is a systematic, you know, abuse mechanism within Israeli prisons.And there was obviously a huge Zionist backlash.And then there was a rumor that was started by David Shuster, who said that he had heard that within the New York Times, there was such a backlash that they were going to retract this column because it had so many problems.That appears to not have been true whatsoever.I can put C2 up on the screen.This is Christoph replying to Schuster.

Schuster's tweet originally said, that we could put C3 up on the screen.The New York Times also came out and said, there is no truth to this at all.Christoph is a two -time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who's reported on sexual violence for decades, is widely regarded as one of the world's best on the ground reporters documenting bearing witness to sexual abuse experienced by women and men in war and conflict zones.He traveled to the region to report firsthand on the stories of Palestinians who suffered abuse.His article collects accounts in the victim's own words backed by independent studies.So that was from a spokesperson for the New York Times.

So this idea that it was, oh, it was so problematic and there were all sorts of issues with it and it's going to get retracted, it appears to be completely bunk.And all you need to know, go and read Adam Johnson's book, including the part called How to Sell a Genocide, especially the part about what an important role the New York Times played in buying time among liberals for Biden to work hand -in -hand with Netanyahu to proceed forward with the election.this genocide, to see the way that the New York Times has covered Israeli actions in Gaza.If you really take that in, you will understand what was certainly an extraordinarily high level of evidence that they required for this particular column to get published.There is no doubt in my mind that the bar was very, very high, as again, evidenced by the fact that he had so many victims, so many witnesses who went to see him.who were on the record, albeit anonymously, to back up the assertions that were made in his story.

But nevertheless, we had a total Zionist freakout.We can put this Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, of course, called it a blood libel.This is C3B.The New York Times chose to publish one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.Again, guys, we have all seen the video of a Palestinian being gang raped on camera.who suffered grave wounds that he was treated for, and the way that those rapists were turned into national heroes.

So you don't even believe this.You don't even believe this yet, you know, for the nation.for the Western world here, for the American public, this is what they're trying to sell.Let's go ahead and put C3D out.Of course, predictably, the free press doing their job here, anonymous sources, pro -Hamas activists, and shoddy biology all fed into a dubious New York Times report.So we can put this one in the category of their famine denial and some of their other efforts to absolve Israel.

some of the crimes that they have committed.We've got Scott Jennings here also getting in on the action saying the New York Times article in quotes about Israel is such a journalistic atrocity that I actually feel stupid reading it out loud.If everyone at the New York Times who's responsible for this is not fired, then the publication will lose weight.shred of credibility it has left.It is so wild to see these people inveigh and pretend that there's some pro -Palestine bias at the New York Times of all places.The evidence is just as clear as it could possibly be that Israeli crimes were consistently downplayed.

Palestinian crimes were consistently emphasized and in certain instances invented, as in the beheaded babies hoax or the babies baked in the oven hoax.And yet people like him and other Zionists will tell you with a straight face that it's Israel that is treated unfairly and poorly in the Western press.

Yeah, I would be very willing to believe, you know, oh, you know, in terms of the clamor about journalistic standards, that maybe this was in good faith.If they'd also done that for other previous hoaxes.And yet that's not the case whatsoever.It's like they demand, look, I said it yesterday.There's more evidence for this than there was for that.It's just, it's open and shut.

You can quibble a little bit with trying to understand how something happened based on firsthand accounts.I get that.But a lot of the character assassination and the freak out over this does not apply whatsoever when it's the claims they're making about what happened on October 7th.Just keep that in mind whenever you're looking at all of this.And the fact that it hasn't been retracted despite this immense amount of pressure, which you know is at a massive governmental level, just demonstrates, I think, again, how...I said it yesterday, sue them then.

If it's fake, the Israeli government can sue.And then they can open up their discovery process for how they really do conduct business, how, what really happened and the guards and everybody can be deposed and the dogs.If it's truly fake, then just prove it.That's easy, right?It's always in the opinion column.It has to be fake.

Do it then.No one's stopping you.You guys have unlimited resources.So that should also be very, very telling whenever they threaten but they don't do anything.Hey, if you liked that video, hit the like button or leave a comment below.It really helps get the show to more people.

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